New Albany plans firehouse on Daisy Lane near pool property

5:55 PM,
May 13, 2013

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Written by

Grace Schneider
| The Courier-Journal

New Albany officials are taking incremental steps toward relocating and building a new $2.2 million firehouse on West Daisy Lane - not far from a planned aquatic center.

Although some details are still being worked out, the city and Kroger Co. have reached a tentative deal for the grocery company to pay $1.5 million for the city's 21-year-old firehouse and adjoining property on Green Valley Road, adjacent to its New Albany Plaza store.

That would allow Kroger to proceed with a long-planned expansion. The city's Redevelopment Commission, in turn, is assembling plans to relocate the ...